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Subject: [Boost-commit] svn:boost r61803 - in sandbox/hash/libs/hash: . doc/html
From: me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden]
Date: 2010-05-05 19:47:10
Author: smcmurray
Date: 2010-05-05 19:47:09 EDT (Wed, 05 May 2010)
New Revision: 61803
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/61803
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hash: add objectives documentation
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+<html>
+<head>
+<title>The MaybeBoost Hash Library</title>
+<body>
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+<P STYLE="float:right">Back to Index</P>
+
+<H2>The MaybeBoost Hash Library: Objectives</H2>
+
+<P>The seed for this library came back during the Boost.UUID review. For random-based UUIDs, Boost.Random had defined the necessary concepts to implement a useful basic_random_generator, but for name-based UUIDs there was no hash concept available. As a result, Boost.UUID currently includes an SHA-1 implementation, but cannot provide the MD5-based UUIDs described by RFC 4122.
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+<P>Message digests are also useful on their own for integrity checking beyond what Boost.CRC provides, or as part of a potential future Cryptography library.
+
+<P>On the implementation side, hash algorithms are build out of smaller components (see, for instance, the Davies-Meyer and Merkle-Damgård constructions) in a way which provides for an elegant generic implementation. Generic programming also allows them to accept a wide range of input sizes, instead of just allowing byte-oriented input like the vast majority of other implementations.
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+<HR>
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+<P>Copyright Scott McMurray 2010</P>
+<P>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt).</P>
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+</body>
+</html>
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<P>This library provides for the calculation of message digests using various hash algorithms.</P>
<P><UL>
+<LI>Objectives
<LI>Quickstart
<LI>Functions
<UL>
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